breeding regular oscar with a albino

[cocoa_pleco]

i want to try to breed my oscar, big als has lots of them so i would try breeding mine with a albino.

mines a regular grey/black/redish oscar, so if i bred it with a albino which genes would be passed to the fry? or would it be just random?

[Drumachine09]

You'd have to be able to determine which trait is dominant in Oscars. I don't remember squat about that stuff in biology, but its probably somewhere on the internet.

[cocoa_pleco]

lol, i cant remember any biology either

*shines dave66 symbol in sky*

[country_boy454]

I'd say breed them together anyway! Be cool for a surprise!

[cocoa_pleco]

lol, it would be funny if i got black/grey oscar fry with the albinos red eyes, demon oscars!

[country_boy454]

lol, it would be funny if i got black/grey oscar fry with the albinos red eyes, demon oscars!

You stole that thought outta my head! I would want one if that happened!

[Demi ^_^]

Lets see, I think it was Kuhli_Loach that told me this, but I may be mistaken :/

Genetics!

Dominant - X
Ressesive - Y

Regular *Dark* Oscar = X
Albino Oscar = Y

It all depends on what each oscar is carrying, which is impossible to find out unless you can contact the breeder, so these are just examples of what you might get :)

---X--X
Y-YX YX
Y-YX YX

The offspring = Regular offspring, but carry the albino gene.

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But lets say one of the X Oscar's parents was a albino and carries the albino gene:

---X--Y
Y-YX YY
Y-YX YY

The offspring = 50% Regular oscars that carry the albino gene. 50% oscars albino in colour.

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But lets say one of the Y Oscar's parents was an albino and carries the albino gene:

---X--X
Y-YX YX
X-XX XX

The offspring = 50% Regular oscars that carry the albino gene. 50% oscars regular in colour.


Hope I've helped..... a bit :D

[cocoa_pleco]

woah, i swear that was a exact replication of my biology courses, it all came back to me!

thanks for the info!

[Demi ^_^]

Lol, your welcome! I had to do all sorts of genetic researching when I started breeding my rats :) So its quite easy now for me to learn about it!

[Futureboy]

whoa! who would think your a beginner! :thumb:

[Demi ^_^]

*Blush* I am a beginner :) Kuli_Loach should get the credit, he was the one who explained it to me and then afterwards I remembered all I had learned with rat genetics :)

[tropfish]

Awesome info Demi, i remember that too with the little table and X and Y haha. We learned but i totally forgot how to do it until you put it up.

[shockshockshad]

You'd think I learned all of that in biology- I learned it in math. I have no idea why they did.

[jbeining75]

Hope it works out. Let us see pics of the fry when they spout.